Second Murder Trial Begins in 1980 Mobile Cold Case
MOBILE, Ala. — A Mobile man is standing trial a second time for the 1980 rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman, more than four decades after her body was…
Today in Mobile History: Soul Singer O.V. Wright Died at Providence Hospital in 1980
On November 16, 1980, Southern soul singer Overton Vertis “O.V.” Wright died at Providence Hospital in Mobile after collapsing outside the hospital’s doors. He was 41 years old. The death…
Confessions and a Discarded Theory as Letson Murder Trial Nears Its End
Jurors in the trial of Jamie Letson heard how a timeline error once pointed detectives toward a University of South Alabama campus officer, and how a 2008 interview changed the…
A Letter to the Dead: Trial Opens in 1980 Killing of USA Student Katherine Foster
Thirty years after Katherine Foster was shot on the University of South Alabama campus, jurors were seated in the murder trial of Jamie Letson, whose handwritten letter of amends may…